Archive for Electrical engineering

To discuss challenges in evaluating smart grid solutions including metrics, testing, certification, modeling and simulation, and testbeds, the third Smart Grid Workshop organized by the Smart Grid Center (SGC) was held on April 21.
The workshop included invited talks by Kenneth Mercado (senior v…

Dr. B. Don Russell, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named chair of the committee on membership of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington, D.C.
In this capacity, Russell will be responsible for the election of …

Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, is the recipient of the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Individual Award.
Dehghanian, who is in Dr. Mladen Kezunovic's research group, received the award during an ceremony on April 18…

Yashwant Prakash Vyas, a senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the Diversity Service Student Award 2015 from the Department of Multicultural Services.
The Diversity Service Awards acknowledge and honor the efforts of students, faculty …

Dr. Jun Zou, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and several co-authors recently had their paper published in the prestigious research publication Nature Methods.
Zou and a Ph.D. student under his supervision, Chih-Hsien Huang…

Shankar Bhattacharyya, the Robert M. Kennedy Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is an invited speaker at the international conference "Optimization in Robustness and Control," organized by the Institute of Control Science, Moscow, Russia.
The conference, which is slate…

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Smart Grid center (SGC) will host the third Smart Grid Workshop at the Memorial Student Center at Texas A&M University on April 21, 2015. The previous workshops were attended by more than 150 professionals, faculty and students, as well as …

Two Ph.D. students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University were named exceptional reviewer for prestigious journals in the power engineering field.
Po-Chen Chen (above left) was named exceptional reviewer for the journal of IEEE Transactions on Power …

Daniel Navid Mohsenizadeh, a post doctoral student from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the First Place Post-Doctoral Award at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society.
Mohsenizadeh,…

Dr. Nick Duffield, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was chosen by the Google Faculty Research Awards Program as a recipient of financial support for his proposal, "Traffic Measurement from High-level Names in Software Defined Networking.…

A workshop on big data was recently organized at Texas A&M University to foster connections across disciplines that intersect this area and help people to identify opportunities for collaboration.
There are many researchers across Texas A&M whose current or emerging research falls under the…

Yashwant Prakash Vyas, a senior student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was named recipient of the ISV Spotlight Award from the International Student Voice (ISV) magazine.
The ISV Spotlight award recognizes students for their hard work and dedic…

Dr. Robert S. Balog, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been elected Member-at-Large of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power Electronics Society (PELS) Administrative Committee.
As Member-at-…